From Windhoek to Auschwitz

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Jürgen Zimmerer is Professor of History at the University of Hamburg.

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Forty years prior to the Holocaust, German colonial troops in German Southwest Africa (known today as Namibia) murdered up to 80000 Herero and 20000 Nama, and caused many more thousands to perish in the desert and as slave laborers in concentration camps. This book examines the relationship between colonialism and the Holocaust, and situates Nazi crimes firmly within the global history of mass violence.

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Preface

1. National Socialism in Postcolonial Perspective

I. War of Extermination, Racial Utopias, and the Mania of Planning

2. The First Genocide of the 20th Century: The German War of Extermination in South West Africa (1904-1908) and the Global History of Genocide

3. The Delusion of Planability: Unfree Labor, Expulsion, and Genocide

4. The Total Surveillance State? Law and Administration in German South West Africa

5. The German Racial State in Africa: Organization, Development, and Segregation

II. The Location of the Namibian War in History

6. The Holocaust and Colonialism: Towards an Archeology of Genocidal Thinking

7. The German Empire and Namibian Genocide

8. Colonial Genocide? On the Use and Abuse of a Historical Category for Global History

IV. From the First German Colonialism to the Second

9. From Windhuk to Warsaw: The Racial State in German South West Africa

10. The Birth of the "Ostland" out of the Spirit of Colonialism: A Postcolonial Perspective on the Nazi Policy of Conquest and Extermination

11. In the Service of the Empire: The geographers of Berlin University

V. German Mass Violence: Special Path or Global History?

12. No Special Path in "Racial Warfare": Between German Continuities and a Global History of Mass Violence